Brominated and chlorinated flame retardants in tree bark from around the globe

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 349-354

  Salamova, Amina ^a   Hites, Ronald A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; CONCENTRATION RANGES; DECHLORANE PLUS; HEXABROMOBENZENE; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANES; HUMAN POPULATION; INDONESIA; ONTARIO , CANADA; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; REMOTE SITES; TREE BARKS; URBAN SITE;

FLAME RETARDANTS; FORESTRY; XYLENE;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

BROMINE; CHLORINE; DECABROMODIPHENYLETHANE; DECHLORANE PLUS; FLAME RETARDANT; HEXABROMOBENZENE; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; LIPID; PENTABROMOBENZENE; PENTABROMOETHYLBENZENE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; TETRABROMO 4 XYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BARK; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; SAMPLING; TREE; URBAN SITE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BARK; CANADA; INDONESIA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLAME RETARDANTS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; PLANT BARK; POPULATION DENSITY;

FLAME RETARDANTS; FORESTRY; IMPURITIES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; XYLENES;

CANADA; DOWNSVIEW; INDONESIA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 84871759100     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303393z     Document Type: Article

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